10 Oct 2014

Apply for an AMREP Collaborative Seed Grant to facilitate a collaboration
between you and another early or mid-career researcher (EMCR) from a different institution within the AMREP. Applications will be accepted from all fields of research, and grant funds may be used for any purpose that facilitates
research collaboration. Two awards of up to $4000 will be awarded; comprising $2000 from each of the participating institutions.

6 Oct 2014

Pictured are Ms Fiona Foley (AXM Project Manager), Mr Marcus Leonard (IT
developer) and Associate Professor Rob Selzer (Project Lead). They have
developed an interactive learning system, unique to Monash, which is
now available for the University’s third year medical students. The
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (FMNHS) developed AXM
(Augmented eXperience Modules) to help students rapidly update their
knowledge on a range of medical and surgical conditions. AXM was funded
and supported by the Faculty. The official launch was 6 Oct 2014. See
links:

The inaugural Australian Trauma Registry Report was released on Saturday
4 October 2014, at the Australian Trauma Society Conference. The collective effort of the nation’s 27 designated trauma centres has been revealed in the first report of the Australian Trauma Registry. The report quantifies the actual extent of the nation’s collective response to the 20,000 critically injured individuals who required treatment in an Australian trauma centre between 2010 and 2012. Australian Trauma Quality Improvement Program (AusTQIP) Co-Chair, Professor Russell Gruen, said the report offers us some vital national data for the first time. Download full report. Also see media release and follow the hashtag #AusTrauma on Twitter.

The Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc) is currently
seeking healthy right-handed volunteers aged between 18 to 60 years to
take part in a study using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
(tDCS) to improve memory and brain plasticity. tDCS is a safe, painless and non-invasive means of stimulating nerve
cells in the brain. Participation will involve attending the MAPrc for
three separate 2-3 hour testing sessions.

You are invited to participate in a research study to help people with HIV be healthier, HealthMap. The program includes:

access to interactive health records at home as well as other resources,

access to phone and online health coaching,

access to anonymous online chat groups.

The HealthMap program is being launched as a one year study. It is a randomised trial, and the study doctors will be
randomised. Doctors and their patients randomised to the 'intervention'
arm will receive immediate access to the HealthMap program. Doctors
and their patients randomised to the 'control' arm will receive access
to the HealthMap program after one year. See more about HealthMap and the research study.